Insufficient data validation in V8 builtins string generator could lead to out of bounds read and write access in V8 in Google Chrome prior…

Published 7 y ago 2019-01-09 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

18.1%

percentile 97%

Public exploits

none known

Insufficient data validation in V8 builtins string generator could lead to out of bounds read and write access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.94 and allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

18.12% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Technology feeds

Google Chrome (RSS, critical only)

References

crbug.com /782145 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2017/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-15428
NVD: CVE-2017-15428

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